Hard drive active kill erase help

Originally Posted by AuburnEwaste

If you are not doing a DOD 7 pass, the data can be recovered. One pass writing zeroes is only slightly better than formatting, and pretty much anything can be recovered.

This is simply not true. Especially with today's high density hard drives.



Read this: The urban legend of multipass hard disk overwrite and DoD 5220-22-M | Grot

I'm really not trying to be contrary, but even someone like Ontrack, who is in the business of recovering data, would be hard pressed to recover data that was wiped with a single zero wipe pass.